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Herb Pharm Joins B Corporation® Movement
[March 08, 2018]

Herb Pharm Joins B Corporation® Movement


WILLIAMS, Ore., March 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Herb Pharm is proud to announce it is now a certified B Corporation. As a B Corp, Herb Pharm meets B Lab's® rigorous standards of social and environmental responsibility, and becomes even more transparent and accountable for its impacts on consumers, employees, community, and the environment.

Herb Pharm is a company of herbalists, scientists and other humans nestled in the fertile growing region of GMO-free Josephine County, Oregon. We have been cultivating and extracting herbs with precision, care and respect for nature since 1979. (PRNewsFoto/Herb Pharm)

"Caring about the planet has been in our DNA since Herb Pharm was founded in 1979," said CEO Tal Johnson. "We farm organically, wildcraft responsibly, and protect at-risk herbs, butterflies, bees, wildlife, and the health of our neighboring waterways."

Indeed, the company's farms are Certified Organic, Salmon-Safe, Bee-Friendly, and both a Monarch Butterfly Way Station and a United Plant Savers Botanical Sanctuary. All Herb Pharm products are non-GMO. However, the company realized there was more it could do to support a broader movement of businesses committed to these same values.

Said Johnson, "We need companies in every industry to embrace the idea that real fiduciary duty is about more than profit."

Herb Pharm joins industry peer Herbalists & Alchemists in a community of more han 2,400 Certified B Corporations from over 50 countries and 130 industries. All B Corporations share a duty to recognize all their impacts on the planet and their stakeholders, and to make those impacts positive.



As part of the certification process, Herb Pharm scored 92.7 on its impact assessment. "Now we start the work of identifying where we can do better," added Johnson. "B-Lab is already helping us improve."

About Herb Pharm
Herb Pharm was founded by "Herbal Ed" Smith and Sara Katz and makes liquid herbal extracts that support both the body and the Earth. Their Oregon farms are Certified Organic, Salmon-Safe, Bee-Friendly and both a Monarch Butterfly Way Station and a United Plant Savers Botanical Sanctuary. To learn more, please visit www.herb-pharm.com.


About B Corp
Certified B Corporations are leaders of a global movement of people using business as a force for good. They meet the highest standards of overall social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability and aspire to use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. There are more than 2,400 Certified B Corporations in over 130 industries and 50 countries with 1 unifying goal – to redefine success in business.

About B Lab
B Lab is a nonprofit organization that serves a global movement of people using business as a force for good. Its vision is that one day all companies compete not only to be the best in the world, but the Best for the World® and as a result society will enjoy a more shared and durable prosperity. B Lab drives this systemic change by:                                                                                                                                                                  

  1. Building a global community of Certified B Corporations who meet the highest standards of verified, overall social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability;
  2. Promoting Mission Alignment using innovative corporate structures like the benefit corporation to align the interests of business with those of society and to help high impact businesses be built to last;                   
  3. Helping tens of thousands of businesses, investors, and institutions Measure What Matters, by using the B Impact Assessment and B Analytics to manage their impact -- and the impact of the businesses with whom they work -- with as much rigor as their profits;                
  4. Inspiring millions to join the movement through compelling story-telling by B the Change Media.

For more information, visit www.bcorporation.net, www.bimpactassessment.net, www.b-analytics.net and www.benefitcorp.net.

 

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